resolve: Preserve reexport chains in ModChildren

This may be potentially useful for
- avoiding uses of `hir::ItemKind::Use`
- preserving documentation comments on all reexports
- preserving and checking stability/deprecation info on reexports
- all kinds of diagnostics

compiler/rustc_middle/src/metadata.rs

@@ -5,13 +5,34 @@ use rustc_macros::HashStable;
 use rustc_span::def_id::DefId;
 use rustc_span::symbol::Ident;
 use rustc_span::Span;
+use smallvec::SmallVec;
+
+/// A simplified version of `ImportKind` from resolve.
+/// `DefId`s here correspond to `use` and `extern crate` items themselves, not their targets.
+#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, TyEncodable, TyDecodable, HashStable)]
+pub enum Reexport {
+    Single(DefId),
+    Glob(DefId),
+    ExternCrate(DefId),
+    MacroUse,
+    MacroExport,
+}
+
+impl Reexport {
+    pub fn id(self) -> Option<DefId> {
+        match self {
+            Reexport::Single(id) | Reexport::Glob(id) | Reexport::ExternCrate(id) => Some(id),
+            Reexport::MacroUse | Reexport::MacroExport => None,
+        }
+    }
+}
 
 /// This structure is supposed to keep enough data to re-create `NameBinding`s for other crates
 /// during name resolution. Right now the bindings are not recreated entirely precisely so we may
 /// need to add more data in the future to correctly support macros 2.0, for example.
 /// Module child can be either a proper item or a reexport (including private imports).
 /// In case of reexport all the fields describe the reexport item itself, not what it refers to.
-#[derive(Copy, Clone, Debug, TyEncodable, TyDecodable, HashStable)]
+#[derive(Debug, TyEncodable, TyDecodable, HashStable)]
 pub struct ModChild {
     /// Name of the item.
     pub ident: Ident,
@@ -24,4 +45,7 @@ pub struct ModChild {
     pub span: Span,
     /// A proper `macro_rules` item (not a reexport).
     pub macro_rules: bool,
+    /// Reexport chain linking this module child to its original reexported item.
+    /// Empty if the module child is a proper item.
+    pub reexport_chain: SmallVec<[Reexport; 2]>,
 }